Keir Starmer
Portrait of the week
Home The electors of Makerfield decided who might be prime minister. After John Healey resigned as defence secretary, Al Carns…
Starmer’s Russian oil tanker raid was a political stunt
This morning, in a blaze of publicity, Royal Navy commandos boarded a sanctioned oil tanker in the English channel in…
Revealed: Andy Burnham’s reassuringly bland Cambridge years
There appears to be a missing chapter in the story of Andy Burnham. Depending on the whims of voters in…
Portrait of the week: Belfast burns, Sullivan resigns and the Iran ceasefire cracks
Home A horrible video circulated on social media of a man on the ground in a Belfast street being stabbed…
Britain should listen to America’s mass migration warning
Back in November, the US State Department warned that ‘mass migration poses an existential threat to western civilisation and undermines…
Kemi gives me hope
I had a notion the other day that there was possibly more I could offer to this fleeting world. A…
Is the West deserting Ukraine at precisely the wrong moment?
Moscow is coming under direct drone attack, the Russian economy is creaking, patriotic bloggers are ever more apocalyptic in their…
No one likes Arsenal, we don’t care
Arsenal’s triumph in finally winning the Premier League again after 22 long, often eyeball-wrenchingly tortuous years has gone down like…
Labour must be honest with voters about the coming crisis
So far, Labour has staged a contested leadership election in government only once – 50 years ago, in 1976. The…
The unbearable smugness of Arsenal fans
Arsenal are Premier League champions after a 22-year wait: their first title since the famous Invincibles season under Arsène Wenger…
Things can always get worse
I have spent the past week marvelling at the behaviour of our commentating class. They seem to have whipped themselves…
Cling on, Sir Keir
People laugh at Sir Keir Starmer for failing to acknowledge that he has almost no hope of survival. This is…
First they came for Mandelson…
At the time of writing, I haven’t seen the King’s Speech, but it’s a safe bet it will include a…
WATCH: Keir Starmer declares himself a ‘gooner’
They say being honest in the face of adversity can help save your neck. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer this…
Britain is sick of the Westminster psychodrama
The British Army has long lived by a simple maxim: “Prior preparation and planning prevents piss poor performance.” It remains…
Keir Starmer has one card left to play
As calls for Sir Keir Starmer’s head grow ever louder among Labour MPs, the British Prime Minister is digging his…
18 ways to save your political career
Dear wannabe leaders of Britain. What a lot of you there are! I’ve been writing about leadership and the craft…
Is the country ready for Chancellor Ed Miliband?
When Morgan McSweeney concluded his evidence on Tuesday to the Foreign Affairs Select Committee about the Mandelson affair, a senior…
Portrait of the week: Starmer avoids ethics inquiry, Birmingham’s bin strikes end and Trump is targeted by a gunman
Home The House of Commons voted 335 to 223 against a Conservative-led motion to refer Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime…
‘It’s worse than during the worst of Boris’: how the civil service turned against Starmer
Somewhere in the vast array of documents the Cabinet Office has gathered on the appointment of Peter Mandelson as the…
Portrait of the week: Olly Robbins is sacked, inflation rises and the Strait of Hormuz is (briefly) opened
Home Sir Keir Starmer tried to explain himself to parliament after Sir Olly Robbins was sacked as permanent under-secretary of…
Why Trump hasn’t stuck the knife into Starmer
As public messages of support go, it scored pretty low on the conviction-o-meter. “Prime Minister Keir Starmer of the United…
Starmer squirms on Mandelson debacle
Keir Starmer is enduring perhaps his most uncomfortable afternoon in the House Commons since being elected Britain’s Prime Minister. He…
What is the supply side of Britain and Europe’s decline?
In his new book Why Populists Are Winning: and How to Beat Them, British MP Liam Byrne argues that it’s…
What’s Britain’s place in the post-Iran world order?
Midway through James Joyce’s Ulysses, the character J.J. O’Molloytips his hat to ‘Our watchful friend, the Skibbereen Eagle’, a playful…
